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! . i * ?? naCB9CB0?Baa*e<3r9C9B99 irfiicii a* i?g a OR ft TALE OF ft I By JAME |7| 0oiiaB*a??MCD?c CHAPTER XXII. IS Continued. 'After a long drive they drew up at E house in a very modest terrace. ,where Jeannette's cousin?homely, matronly woman, gave them a hearty welcome. Some tea and refreshments were put before them, of which Sophy could hardly be persuaded to partake, bo afraid was she of pursuit and capture. In twenty minutes they were again on their way, this time in bne of these flies peculiar to the suburbs and country towns. Their way lay now clear of the streets, among villas and market gardens. At la6t they stopped at a pretty cottage, with bay windows looking over a well-kept lawn bordered by flower-beds, already redolent of the spring. Little Willie was enchanted with their color and perfume. "Dear mamma. I should like to Jive here all my life," she whispered eoftly. "You shall live here as long as you like, you dear." said Jeannette. To Sophy, as to the child, though for a different reason, the prospect seemed too alluring to be realized. "'It looks most sweet and quiet," she whispered. "But shall we .be safe, Jeannette?" "Do you see that building yonder, Miss Sophy, with the ivy round it? It is only a stone's throw, and we shall be secure under its shadow." Even the churches were less ecclesiastical looking than artistic. "Is it the church?" inquired Sophy, not .without some doubt in her mind of the security afforded by the proximity of the sacred edifice against the machinations of her husband. "The church! Lor' bless you, no, miss. It's better nor that; it's the police station." A neat cheerful woman having the appearance of a housekeeper received them, and showed them over the cottage, which was very prettily furnished; the nursery arrangements were exceptionally pleasant .and appropriate. When tired little Willie had been put to bed and was lying f asleep and was watched by the two fond women, Jeannette expressed a hope that her mistress had .found | things to her liking. "I dare not say what I think," said Sophy. "I feel as though I was looking upon something far too restful and beautiful to last?like sunset in the skies. To whom am I indebted (for this charming haven? in T^hich, however, it is out of the question, Jeannette, that we can remain. You don't understand that in leaving Mr. 'Adair I have deprived myself of the means of livelihood?" "I am not so sure of that. Miss Sophy; at least, those who know a great deal more about such matters than me are not so sure. But, however that may be, don't you fret yourself abopt the cost of things. Money .will be provided?at all events for some time to come?by one whose greatest pleasure will be to ;.pend it upon you.' Sophy's face flushed to her forehead. It had suddenly struck her that Mr. Mavors was her unknown benefactor, and then the shame of1 having entertained such an unjustifiable suspicion overwhelmed her. It was probable, indeed, that the tator had forgotten all about her, or if he had thought of inquiring, had heard, perhaps, not altogether without com* placency, that the man she had preferred to him had turned out not altogether the best of husbands. "If I tell you who it is. Miss Sophy, I shall be doing the very 1 thing the person in question?Mrs. Johnson, as I have called her?wishes me not to do." "I am very much obliged to my unknown friend, whoever she is, Jeannette," returned sopny, resoiuteJy; "but I cannot consent to be un'der obligations to a stranger, or, what is -worse, to some one who may be returning to me good for evil." Her mind had reverted to Aunt Maria. It is highly improbable, of course, that that lady should possess the means for any such act of generosity; but, at all events, as Sophy ,was well convinced, the will would not be wanting to her; when we cannot find what we search for elsewhere, we look for it in unlikely places. "Well, Miss Sophy, I will do your bidding, if you will, on your part, listen with patience to something 1 have sot to say about myself, and when you have heard it try your best to forgive me." "I have nothing, alas, to forgive \ any one, my poor Jeannette; throughout my life things have been quite the other way." "You have done some foolish things, no doubt, Miss Sophy, returned Jeannette, naively; "and grievously have you suffered for them. Your marriage with Mr. Perry was, of course, the beginning oil- hut still vnnr misfortunes might have ended there but for my meddling. But for me you might have made a clean breast of it to the canon, and at least prevented matters from going from bad to worse." "No. Jeannette, no," put in her mistress, mournfully; "I had not the courage of it; anything seemed easier to me than to tell the truth." s "You were hesitating about it, Miss Sophy, at all events, and I threw all ; the weight I had with you into the wrong scale. I did not know it was the wrong one, but I ought to have done, had not my eyes been blinded by the glitter of gold. Miss Sophy, I was bribed by Mr. Adair to help him." "Bribed! Oh, Jeannette!" "Hush! hush! you must not kneel to me," interrupted Sophy, greatly agitated. 'If I have anything to forgive you, of course, it is forgiven." "I thank you for that blessed word, Miss Sophy," cried the sobbing giri. "I draw my breath for the drst time freely for the last five years. While life is in me, I will do com cob o am e as as o tm _ fS WARD jjrjs MONEY HiDKESS. . J 8^8^ ====== * 9 ? J S PAYN. ZmaP imiaHBiccsss | ? ? ?? as my best to repair the misery T have brought upon you; I "will work for you and little Willie as no woman ever worked before." "You dear, faithful creature," said Sophy, tenderly. "At present our fortune is in the clouds, through which, however, let us hope that some ray of sunshine may presently! find its way. But you have not yet told me what you promised; how is it we are lodged in this pretty place? Who has made these arrangements ' " ~t TTTO CTO* 1 IVl uui cuujiuh; ngtr uiu ?< ^ here with such ease and safety? Who but Henny could have done it?" > "Mrs. Irton could have done it, Miss Sophy, no doubt," returned Jeannette gently; "but it was so all important, you see, that neither she nor her husband should know anything about your whereabouts when Mr. Adair makes his inquiries of them, as he is sure to do." Sophy cast an involuntary glance at her sleeping child and .shuddered. "I see, of course, the absolute ne- . cessity of that," she said; "but things do not happen in this world according to our necessities. "If Henny has not been our guardian angel in this ; matter, who can it have been? Who is good Mrs. Johnson?" "There is no guardian angelship and no sort of goodness about her," 1 returned the waiting-maid, vehement- 1 ly. "All that you see here are the mere proceeds of her wages of iniquity. But such as she .is, she is j I Jenny Perkins." CHAPTER XXTI1. The Confederates. _ When he once found "himself ] abroad and out of the reach of im- ; mediate danger, Irton had said of ] John Adair that he would hold up < his head and be himself again. Nor ? did it require the air of the conti- i nent to revive him. Miserable as ] was his aspect as he slurik away j from Eedford Row, he seemed, like i Antaeus, to gather strength and con- ( fidence with every footfall. He had ] been in a good many ugly holes, it < was true; and, what was worse. Irton ] was aware, it seemed, that he had y been on the brink of one which, as i compared with the rest, was at the l bottomless pit itself. He had suf- i fered a terrible penalty for having ] been so near it, the thought of which t Ko/i + ahie cni'rif hilt i UO.U UILC1 A J 4UCUVUVU il i u U^iJ * v. , wu<.( j on reconsideration, he now felt as- j sured that there was no intention ? on the lawyer's part to pursue the ^ matter to the bitter end. 1 This might arise, as Irton had said, 1 from an unwillingness to disgrace t those belonging to him, or from the i difficulty of establishing the charge; i and if the latter the sooner he left England, and the longer he kept ; away .the less likely it was to be i brought home to him. Who the wit- 1 ness of his attempted crime could be, Adair could make no guess. Per- i haps there had been no witness; \ though the suspicion against him V?-o va honn ofvnncr l'nrloo^ f A 1 XiU y Uttil Obi VU^ 1UUVVU vv j have induced the invention of such t testimony. But it was evidently re- i solved by his ehemies (as he termed those whom he had wronged and ( ruined) that he should either fly the ( country or make acquaintance with 1 the dock of a criminal court; and j there was no hesitation on his part 1 which to choose. He had already been comtemplating flight on other t grounds; and should he be arrested, 1 no matter on what charge, his seizure would be the signal for half a dozen c other prosecutions. He had long 1 been prescient of this evil day, which % nothing but the success of the San Sobrano scheme, which had come to e the ground with a crash that could e not be stifled, could have Staved off, e and had made his arrangements ac- j cordingly. c As even a small income can be ' made to go a good way if we are r deaf to the claims of others, and c spend every penny of it upon ourselves, so even among the ruins of j failure there is money to be picked \ lip by the unscrupulous; and Adair, J t as the lawyer had foreseen, had feathered his nest pretty completely, or, in other words, had laid his hands upon everything that could be realised and turned into portable prop- t erty. Whenever he touched that ( breast pocket of his he experienced j a pleasurable glow which with seme c people is the substitute for all generous emotions?the consciousness i .of the possession of capital. For all i that had come and gone, he still had a complacent confidence in his own < natural abilities. Backed by the experience of the last five years? ( which, though acquired at great cost, had nevertheless been paid for by . other people's money?he felt him- 1 self capable of great commercial en- ; terprises. These, however, would be j of a different kind from those with which he had hitherto been connected, and which had failed (as he per- 1 suaded himself) by the pusillanimity and want of enterprise of others. ] His crwn hand and brain should for the future direct them; and, in par- | ticular, he would take care to sepa- ] rate himself completely from these coadjutors, or rather confederates, : with whom perforce he had of late ; consorted. He would put them to < one more use, and then have done i with them. 1 It was in company with one of these?the man Dawson?that he < *1* n c? of'Aiit t r\ Ihqva T7*n o ! ? fl f h ? f* I very evening; and by him ail arrangements had been made for that purpose. Dawson was not only ] aware that Sophy and the child were going with Adair, but bad suggested . their doing so. He knew all their j circumstances, and had pointed out < how important it was to Adair's lu- ] ; ture prospecis (in which Mr. Dawson flattered himself he would have some share) that he should keep his ' wife and his daughter (whom he < playiuilv termed the goose and the 1 gosling with the golden eggs; under i his own eye. < "If you once leave your wife," "h? naively said, "her own people will get round her, and you will find at difficult to reopen relations with her;" and as her income was paid into her own hands, this would be chviously inconvenient. There were certain circumstances which rendered it injudicious for Adair to be seen traveling in a railway carriage in the dircetion of the seacaost; while for Mr. Dawson such a step would have been still more hazardous. It had therefore been settled that Mrs. Adair and the child should journey to Gravesend alone, while her husband and his confederate were to drop down the Tiver at night and join them in the -morning. A boat manned by a crew whom they could trust (i. e., who were well paid for the job) was to await them at midnight by the stairs at the bottom of Miller street, where Dawson had some place of business. The two men, though united by the bond of common interest, were far from being on good terms; their natures were antipathetic. Dawson was a coarse and brutal ruffian, whose society could not but revolt a man of education, however morally degraded; he enjoyed himself after his fashion, which Adair never did, but he was not a whit less suspicious and cunning. It had been agreed that they were to meet together at :a waterside tavern in the East of London that afternoon to make their final arrangements, and thither now Adair bent his steps. Tbe rendezvous itself was characteristic enough of one of the two men; .a rickety erection with beetle brows (like a villainous low forehead), its wooden walls bulging on the xiver and overhanging at low tide mud and slime; the haunt ol profligate and noisy sailors. Adair, who though unscrupulous, was fastidious in his way, surveyed the place, which he had never entered before, with a shudder of disgust As he walked down the narrow lane JL \y illtUL IV, lyiuicu IliC iciuiiuutivM his heart -was full of bitterness. The sld houses almost meeting over his bead as they leaned forward in age ind weakness, made a shadow above Sim which, though there was no oth?r point of likeness, heaven knows, J suddenly reminded him of the time walk at Trinity. Six years ago he lad trodden it in cap and gown; a nan of mark and promise, with a future before him, and now he had belome the companion of thieves. With lot one pang of remorse, he felt an jxcessive repugnance to the thing he lad become; a pent-up fury raged vithin him against circumstances, 'ate, whatever it was that had )rought him to such a pass. It was lot his own fault, of course; the cnave out of luck is seldom aware :hat he had chosen the very worst ircfession in the world; he only inows that he is "cursed unfortulate." What most excited his wrath * ' _ a vas me raci mat nis uwu ucbu auu ?lood had deserted him. though they lad, in fact, only escaped him. Next 0 them, he loathed the man to whom t was necessary to disclose that huniliating circumstance. He found Dawson awaiting him In 1 low-windowed room looking on the iver, smoking a pipe, and drinking :ot brandy and water. "Punctual, as usual, Master Jack," i was his familiar address. "That's J veil; sit down and have a glass." "No; I have neither time nor taste 'or drinking. Matters are getting J .00 hot for us, Dawson. For my ;art, I wish we were well off." ' It is always safer?which means juick'er?to wait for night, when it :omes to running. Besides, the men :ave their orders, and could not be ;ot together all in a moment. What :as happened to frighten you?" "I have reason to believe that here are people looking for me at ;ome." "inrioiuii" cnirl thp other lavine own his pipe and dropping his careess manner. "I hope you have got our women folk well away." "They are not coming," said Adair, ullenly; "they have fled the house, ir.d I don't know where they have ;cne." "Come, come, Mr. Adair!" ex- I Maimed his companion, menacingly; | 'this will not "do. Miles Dawson is ' iot the man to be made a catspaw "I tell you I Jcnow no more than ou do where my wife has gone. I j vish I did know. It's more my loss ban yours, I suppose." To be Continued. History, on the Stump. The story is told of an ardent poifician who in making speeches for ?olonel Harris out in the short-grass egion, struck a flowery period the ,:her night, and said: "In the words of Daniel Webster, ,vho wrote the dictionary, 'Give me ibertv or give me death!' " One of his colleagues pulled at his :oat and whispered: ' Daniel Webster did not write the lictioaary; it v;as Noah." "Noah, nothing," replied the speaker; "Noah built the ark."? Wiiliam Allen White, in Emporia Gazette. The Collection Habit. "Why are you here?" asked the ;indly visitor. "For debt," replied the sad-eyed prisoner. I "For debt? Inhuman! Impossible! And this the twentieth century! I'll get you out." "But this is a complicated case," rejoined the prisoner. "It is not for i debt of mine. You see, the world iwes every man a living and I was trying to collect. Much obliged for the tracts." However, the visitor had passed on.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Topeka Distractions. The Colorado football team has iiad a hard time to find time to keep up with their studies, which they ire supposed to do. There are too many auracuve gins in iuiikku auu especially at Washburn College.?To[ieka State Journal. When a steady tippler is prostrated with pneumonia his chances of re:overy are about three in ten. His heart has been so weakened by artificial stimulation that his vitality ia easily depressed. : * r-- ? '?r- . ; BITS? NEWS WASHINGTON. Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng, retiring Minister from China, .left to return tp his native country. Rear-Admiral Evans left for New York to prepare the Atlantic fleet for its voyage to the Pacific. Quartermaster-General Humphrey was placed on the retired .list at his own request. Secretary Taft announced that J. B. Bishop, secretary of the Panama Canal Commission, "would make his headquarters on the Isthmus. t The itinerary of the President's trip West early in Odtober., which was made public at Oyster Bay., -showed that he would oat go further South than Memphis. Plans were announced ft>r a proposed National Department of Fine Arts. Chief. Engineer Goethals in a tentative report favored the division of the Panama Canal work into sections and letting contracts for them. Secretary Taft left for a month's vacation at Mnrray Bay. The American Bankers' Association presented a complaint to the Interstate Commerce Commission against the leading express companies acting as bankers. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDSCorporal P. J. Green, <vf the Eleventh United States Infantry, who was shot at Holguin, Cuba, on June 28 by a local policeman while resisting arrest, is dead. President Roosevelt promoted Alfred S. Hartwell from Associate to -?xi? ^m ivi \juiei j usuct; ui luc pujucuic uuuii of Honolulu, and appointed Sidney Miller Ballou Associate Justice of the same court. General Smith has returned to Manila after a month's tour of inspection in the noithern provinces. An Englishman returned to London from the Philippines says the people expect Japan to seize them. There are 161,127 persons in the Philippine Islands qualified to vote (500 pesos property qualification), and of this number only 123,937 voted at the last municipal elections. DOMESTIC. New York City's bond sale resulted | In bids for ?2,121,840 of the $29,000,000 offered, being saved from complete fiasco by fifty-seven small bids. Federal Judge Landis, at Chicago, refused to recall the subpoena for John D. Rockefeller, summoned to give information of Standard Oil finances in the Alton rebate case. The Wisconsin State Assembly, by a vote of 69 to 3, passed the Senate resolution providing for the naming of a United Siiates Senator by direct vote. Secretary Metcalf stated at San Francisco that a squadron would I round Cape Horn and visit that harbor. About 1000 delegates attended the sixteenth annual convention of the Baptist Young People's Union at Spokane. Judge Edgar Aldrich, of Littleton, N. H., was appointed master to determine the competency of Mary Baker G. Eddy to conduct her own affairs. Magnus Thompson shot and fatally wounded Minnie Phatum at New Richmond, Wis., and blew off the top of his own head. The girl had refused to marry Thompson. Leo C. Thurman, of West Point, Ky., arrested at Vancouver, B. C., in April for the murder at Norfolk, Va., in February, 1906, of Walter P. Dolsen, of Michigan, the victim of a trunk mystery, has been sentenced to be hanged September 27. Tams Blxby, of Muskogee, I. T., for ten years a commissioner for the Five Civilized Tribes, has retired. J. George Wright, Indian inspector, suc.ceeds him. A jump from a moving train near Denver, Col., killed Frank Schmelzer, of the Western Federation of Miners, who was going to Boise to testify for Haywood. . FOREIGN. The master of the rolls of the Kildare Street Club, of Dublin, decided that the expulsion of Edward Martyn was illegal. Japanese authorities in Korea were astonished at the appearance of a Korean delegation at The Hague Conference, and accuse the Emperor of bad faith. Sir Edward Grey said in the House of Commons that Britain's claim against China was based on the damages actually incurred in the Boxer rebellion. The British Government demanded of Morocco that prompt steps for the release of Sir Harry MacLean be taken. Forty Croatian Deputies left the Hungarian Parliament as a protest against the Government's railroad bill. A dispatch from Eerlin said that Japan had placed an order with the Krupps for a number of twelve-inch naval guns. France took formal possession of the new Siamese territory awarded under the recent treaty. The Russian'Government is hastening to carry out the recent order for distribution of land to peasants on easy terms, and has ordered the relaxation of measures against the | Jews. | Count Constantino Nigra, the well known Italian diplomat, died at Rapallo. Horace G. Knowles, American Minister to Servia and Rumania, who succeed John \V. Riddle, now Ambassador at St. Petersburg, presented his credentials to King Peter, at Belurade. It was announced at Rome that the Italian Government would grant I amnesty to all political press offendI ers, with the exception of anarchists, on the occasion of the centennial, I July 4, of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi. The Novoe Vremya, of St. Petersburg, declares that secret arming is going on in Finland, citing the recent big seizure of arms and ammunition in England, which the paper says were purchased by Finns. The Chief of Police of Tiflis, Russia, Colonel Baladanski, shot and killed himself with a revolver over his mother's grave, on wnicn ne naa previously spread his decorations. He took his life because he had been severely reprimanded on account of the terrorist outrages. Lieutenant-General Sir Robert ;Stewart has just been superseded as jGovernor of germuda. ' ? fill., .Jv J tj :.{ ^Mr.. . ... u f ' ' . THE GREAT DESTROYEI SOME STARTLING FACTS ACOU! THE VICE OP INTEMPEIIANCE. Rescne of a Drunkard?Jimmic Wen to Church, But Prosperity Came He Took to Drink and You Knov the Result?How He Reformed Dr. C. L. Goodell, of New York tells this story: "Jimmy was a mem her of the church but prosperitj came to Jimmy, and as he got monej he forgot God. sHe fell into bad company and began to drink; all his fortune, an interest in a whaling vessel went down Jimmy's throat until he wasn't worth a dollar. He had t place as salesman in the fishing business, that was all. He hadn't been ii a church for years, but I noticed hire at meeting one night sitting on the back seat. Somehow, my heart was drawn toward the fellow, and he waf moved by the heartfelt interest thai he knew I had In him, so he came , week after week. Sometimes he would be sober and sometimes he would be so drunk that I hardly knew if he could get out of the church alone. "One Sunday night Jimmy came in and dropped heavily down in the back seat. I was in the pulpit and ] said to myself, 'He has either beer drinking more than usual or else there is something going 'on. No, Jimmy is sober enough so that he knows what is going on.' After the service was over Jimmy had taker his place again on the back seat. ] went to him and threw my am around his shoulder and talked tc him. He said: 'Doctor, I want it, and I am going to turn over a new leaf, but I have got to have just one rnnro Hr-lnlr ' T caH tn VMm* 'Vnil want something to eat, Jimmy.' He replied: 'I guess you are right; 'l haven't had anything to eat to-day I had a drink this morning, and twc or three more at noon and anothei to-night, and I haven't had anything to eat to-day.' I got him down to a restaurant where they had nothing but tea and coffee to drink. I ordered black coffee and beefsteak, and after he had eaten the steak and drank two or thnee cups of coffee he began to feel quite like himself, and he said, "I guess I will go home now.' I said, 'I will go home with you.' At the front steps he said 'Good night.' 1 answered, 'I will go up with you to your room and see you tucked into bed.' So I stepped in and tucked him In bed and talked with him, and then went home. When he heard my feet echoing down the street, he said tc himself: 'Now the minister is gone, I will put on my clothes and go down and have a drink and a good time.' He got out of bed and started to put on his clothes, when all at once he Btopped and said: 'I won't do it; 1 am a mean man, but I am not mean snough to do that. After the minister was kind enough to come clear home with me and tuck me into bed, I am not mean enough to go back on him.' A strange thing happened when Jimmy woke up next morning; for the flrst time in twenty-five years V> i AiAn't wont anv llniinr T Mn't UC U1UU V "UMV explain It, but I know It Is a fact that Jimmy didn't want any liquor and he didn't get any. He went on day after day, and he didn't want any liquor, and he came into the meeting and gave his testimony." % The Demonizing Rum Traffic. A striking incident of the demonizing influence of intoxicating liquor occurred in St. Louis. The case was thus described in the local press: "What a man of good and even gentle disposition will do when under the influence of liquor was graphically Illustrated in a story told in the case of Henry Laesche in the City Hall Police Court Saturday. "Friday evening Laesche arrived at his home, 2340 South Ninth street, intoxicated. He had passed the cheerful state of hilarity and was moody and irritable. His wife saw that there would be trouble as soon as he entered the room and called her brother, A. Voges, who lives in the same house. "Laescne caugn: signt or ms mue I baby girl lying on the bed. Without a word cf warning he took up a pail of boiling water and threw it at the child on the bed. "But the mother, with the instinctive presence of mind that comes to most mothers when their children are in danger, threw a bed quilt over the child while the scalding water was 6t.il 1 in the air, and thus narrowly averted what might have been a tragedy. "Then the husband made an effort to strike the child on the bed. But by this time Voges reached him and dragged him away. In court Laesche Bimply said that he was intoxicated and knew nothing of what had happened. Voges testified that he thought his brother-in-law a good ? J ? nwnnH/iol ^om/Nnefra. LLiUIi illiU gave a piaubivai ucmvuoi.iuUon of his opinion by paying the $15 fine which Judge Tracy imposed." Too Many Saloons in Glasgow. Mr. Maclay, a leading shipowner of Glasgow, Scotland, in appealing to a magistrate to reduce the number of saloon licenses in the harbor districts, says that the districts are seething in drunkenness, disease, misery, immorality and crime. There are dozens of houses in which pigs would not live, and some of these are occupied by people who once held good social positions. Power of the Church. "The Christian Church has it in its power in the United States to drive the traffic in ardent spirits from the land."?Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher. Dr. Lorenz a Teetotaler. Dr. Lorenz, the great Austrian surgeon, was at a banquet in his honer. Many of the guests drank. The prin| cipal guest, however, pushed his win aside, untasted. Someone asked him if he were a teetotaler. "I cannot say that I am a temperance agitator," said Dr. Lorenz, "but I am a surgeon, My success depends upon my brain [ being clear, my muscles firm and my nerves steady. No one can take alcoholic liquor without blunting these I physical powers, which mustbekepton edge. As a surgeon I must not drink.'The Spread of Tuberculosis. Says a writer in the Medical Record: "It has been proved more or less conclusively that pulmonary tuberculosis is spread by the agency of public houses in Great Britain, and this is probably also the case to a loKcipr extent in reeard to sp.loons ir America." King of Beverages. Water is the king of beverages; it is the beverage to which all turn when they would cure themselves ol (he habit of consuming alcohol. . # .,Jr ' , ' , ' ' , *-. " j I SUNDAY v Thoughts 1 * r? /->?7 WW mr J At l JLKNUiJiv 'A' orwoiea 1 READING. Divines. ] > < OUR LOWLY WORK NOT IN VAIN, t ( Sometime, -when all our gathered sheaves < we lay, ' At Jesus' feet, The trials that beset us on the way. The burdens we hod carried all the day, > The noontide heat, Will be forgotten; and the rest we sought j So sweet will be, That we 6hall wonder how we ever thought ' The labor hard, when in His name we * wrought 1 So fitfully. 1 What if the seed be sown with blinding \ tears, And our hearts rend With the swift changing of our hopes to ' fears, Because of the slow growth throughout ' the years. 1 Of fields we tend; i We have His word that we shall reap i with joy i Some happy day; Then, when our courage fails and griefs 1 anncy, ' Let us be patient; bliss without alloy 1 Waits o'er the way. ] Over each field of nodding golden grain Changes have passed; The smiling sunshine and the chilling rain, J Twilight and dawn have come and gone again, 1 ' UV/vtv% lacf. / l So for the seed which we in weakness sow; i God knoweth best [ Whether dark clouds must cast their gloom L below, Or whether in the sunshine it may grow At His behest; \ - Our lowly work is but to scatter seed s With lavish hand, i Sending it broadcast wheresoe'er there's : need, And full fruition will make glad indeed The barren land. \ Then when at reaping-time we hear our Kinc : Bidding us come, We shall respond with plenteous offering ; Of ripened fruitage, as with joy we sing [ . The Harvest Home. ?Lizzie W. Price,, in Mid-Continent. > I Be Anxious For Nothing. A very plain injunction, but how | rew there are who go through the daily duties of life free from a spirit ; of care and anxious thought! Let us look at one or two reasons why 1 we should try to keep our minds free 1 from aniiety. First of all, we are very prone to anticipate trouble, but great solicitude about the future shows a want of confidence in God, who has promised saying: "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee," and we have the testimony of Joshua: "Not one thing ' hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake con- ] cerning you." Then anxiety keeps the mind in a state of constant uneasiness, and preys upon the temper, spirits and health. It produces perplexity of purpose, disqualifies the mind from pursuing its ordinary duties, and often accelerates the very evils that are the objects of dread. It has also a most pernicious moral, influence, as it leads to repining, discontent, envy, peevishness, prayerlessness and infidelity. Man is so short-sighted that' the very cloud he dreads may be replete with mercy, while the object of his desire may be like the meat which the children of Israel craved In the wilderness, of which they had no sooner eaten than it became loathsome, and numbers died with a very great plague. Carking anxiety makes a person overweeningly selfish, shuts up all the generous sympathies of the heart and binds every thought to tne wneei of this despotic monomania. Great effeminacy of mind on body produces nervousness and many moral evils; so great anxiety debilitates the mental and physical powers. As pulmonary consumption wastes away the body, so care consumes the mind. Care in the heart is like a worm in the bud, or, to use another simile, distressful solicitude preys upon the mind as a moth frets a gar1 ment. Jesus said: "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Take no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall Bustain thee. Cast all your care upon God, for He careth for you. Be careful for nothing. Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature? If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought of the rest?" Free Frow Bonds. The divine life is a life free from the galling bonds and fretful exactions of self-will, free from discord and fear; a harmonized life of trustful power, joy and peace, which the soul recognizes as a communication with the immanent Lord. The law of progress in it is a sovereign consecratedness to the culture of insight, * energy, sensibility and obedience, by 1 persevering exercises of thought, i prayer, holiness and love.?William ( Mger. ( t Showers of Blessings. > There is an ocean into which, from c age to age, all streams of human t consciousness and conscience and s conviction pour themselves, and t from which there is no outlet save t by the windlasses of God Himself, who sends us showers of blessings which no present human effort caD I account for. J i Four Pillars For Promises. Every promise is built upon four pillars: God's justice, which will not ^ suffer Him to deceive; His grace, s which will not suffer Him to forget; t His truth, which will not suffer Him j to change, and His power, which j makes Him able to accomplish.?Sal- ( ter. j t Unto All Truth. f I ItfA trnac nnf nf nnp cipilt i |l> U HUi.V ill.%5 -"Z3 out it returns a holy ghost, a com- 6 ! Jorter, a guide unto all truth. ? t a Yankee Locomotives For France. t The Norwegian steamship Ada loaded seventeen locomotives for the Orleans Railroad of France at the Port Richmond piers, in Philadel- ? phia, Pa., for Bordeaux. France, y1 where the entire cargo will be dis- J. charged. The locomotives are the 6 largest ever built here and are believed to be the largest in the United ; States. They were built along the ?? i lines of the English engines. * I I 01 is South Getting Hichcr. hi , The South is getting richer at til? ^ rate ot $7,000,000 a day. ta > ' ' ' - ' : '> ["HE SUNDAY SCHOOL, ' : [NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUG. 4 BY. THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: The Tabernacle, Ex. 40.: 113, 34-38?Golden Text, Ex?--,.d 40:34?Memory Verses, 34-35??+ Commentary. The tabernacle that Moses set up n the midst of the journeying peo* ?le of Israel after the commands of Fehovah concretely and vividly ex* 4 presses and exemplifies the concep:ion of the relation between God an<t Israel that was dominant ?t the :ime. It may perhaps be difficult tot many to become very acutely Inter* jsted in the study of the fashion of > the tent and Its furnishings. Bui Lhat will be largely because we fail to grasp the underlying and .universal religious needs and expe* riences of which the structure in all Its parts is an objective represenia* tiou. The tabernacle represents In. outward fashion the central and controlling religious fact of all the ages that God is in the midst of His people. It represents the outworking of subjective religious experiences iuto> Dutward and material expressions, tt symbolizes in its furnishings; many lasting and precious spiritual truths. We shall be foolish If we* 3o not learn spiritual lessons and per- " :eive spiritual meanings and secure?piritual instruction and comfort aswe study this Scripture." The ark, theirail, the incense, the burnt offering,, the oil, the consecration of the priest,, mrely the mention of each should wpply us with suggestive thought. In verse 2 in the authorized version the Scripture is translated "tent }f the congregation." The revised, version properly translates thesfe words "tent of the meeting." And the change is as suggestive as it is-' corrective. Here indeed, in a word. is given the reason for the taberiiacle; here in a word is described the use to which it was to be pat md was put by the chosen peoplejf God. "Meeting." Here they met I lehovah in that peculiarly sacred I manner that was a distinguishing: I 'ftn f iim/v #-\r a! 1 (ri/Nti n avnmaatnfi ** I LtaLUIC UJ U1C11 ICilgiUUO wiptvqocyu* , tfere they met Jehovah in the holiest, ind most satisfying manner. Hereby met God. It was indeed a place )f meeting. A tent dedicated to* meeting from time to time with God Himself. It was also the place where they gathered in the expression of :heir common religious longings and for the exercise in an especial manner Df their spiritual inclinations. Everything within and about the* tabernacle was to be holy. All that .vent into the serviceof God was holy. \nd it was wise that such an empjiaste should be laid. The Israelites had long been living in the midst of a. people whose religion was not what t might have been. There wa?i every, langer as we have seen in previous. * essons that they would get to havei shallow conception of religious* ;ruth and that they would place a ight valuation upon those thing* ;hat are religiously most essential to> mmanity. The tabernacle simply, jxemplified to them what should be:he hallowedness of their own lives, [t kept constantly before them the* ralue and the beauty of holiness. It imphasized in no uncertain fashion ;hat only that which was puremd undefiled was of highest use to? lod. It stood as a constant rebuke ;o personal or national uncleanaess; md unworthiness of mind or Heart >r soul. They met the hallowed al- * ar of sacrifice as they approached ;he sacred precincts of the taberlacle. The sacrifice enforced the lesson of personal responsibility before 3od and the need for personal conession of sin as the primal requisite 'or entrance into the presence of 3od. As with the altar of sacrificeio with every other bit of material n and about the tabernacle. By a / jrocess of association all was exemplary. We note also that the priest whovas to officiate in the services of the emple was to be washed and mointed and sanctified. And that vas a valuable regulation. The jriesthood of the surrounding na- _ ions were not always men of the leepest spiritual experience or the nost consecrated. Judging from the previous lessons Aaron needed the vashing and the anointing and the :anctifying to make him properly apjreciative of the high office to which n God's providence he had been railed. A clean priesthood is as lecessary to God as a clean people md a clean and hojy temple. It is also noticeable that as sodn is God's commands were complied vith Israel entered into a new exjerience of God. Verse 33 tells us hat "Moses finished the work." /erse 34 relates that "then the cI6ud :overed the tent of meeting and the jlory of the Lord filled the taberlacle." Further comment is unrnfc:ssary. All that the tabernacle was we >ught to be ourselves. All that It ;ymbolized we as living temples mght to exemplify. God should find n us the sacrifice of a clean heart md of a contrite spirit and should >e able out of us to construct a tem- , )le holy to Himself. All that the tab?rnacle was Christ is to us. May jod give us all the vision to see nany p'recious and helpful truths In he lesson for the day. For in that vhich is usually considered pretty Iry reading we may discover much hat is helpful and instructive and luggestive. Under the guidance of he Spirit of God we may have unhought of beauties revealed to us. Rest and AVork. While the Master says, "Come and est," He is sure to also say, "Gf' md work. Japanese Shipping Combine. Consul-General William Martin vrites from Hankow, China, that the ubsidy for the steamship service on he Yangtse River and tributaries laving been confirmed by the Imper* ai the .Tanan-China Steamship /Ompanv, a combine of four old com* >anies? has been formed, with a caplal of $4,050,000. The new' comiany contemplates increasing its captal to $6,000,000. One-fifth of tha hares may be allotted to Chines'! lubscribers. The company opened lusiness on April 1, and is to receive in annual subsidy from the govern* aent amounting to $400,000. To Reclaim Judah Sword. The handsome sword presented uring the Civil War by the city of ew York to Lieutenant Henry M. udah and recently found in a pawn, lop at Trenton, N. J., is to be reaimed by the State and forwarded ) the late Lieutenant's nephew, ienry R. Judah, in San Francisco, he sword had been bequeathed to ae of Lieutenant Judah's sons, whov supposed to have pawned it. The [story of the weapon was traced irough the State and Federal mili